Casteel v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
ERROR to the District Court, Carbon County, Hon. Dayid H. Craig, Judge. The plaintiff in error, Robert Casteel, was charged with murder in the second degree for the killing of one Mels Thorn. He was convicted of manslaughter. The defendant, on his trial, offered to prove uncommunicated threats of the deceased against him, but the court refused to admit the testimony. Some of the instructions were also objected to.
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ERROR to the District Court, Carbon County, Hon. Dayid H. Craig, Judge. The plaintiff in error, Robert Casteel, was charged with murder in the second degree for the killing of one Mels Thorn. He was convicted of manslaughter. The defendant, on his trial, offered to prove uncommunicated threats of the deceased against him, but the court refused to admit the testimony. Some of the instructions were also objected to. The defendant after making a motion for new trial which was overruled, prosecuted error. The case was submitted, and the State sought to substitute for the original record showing…
1Opinion of the Court
Coen, Justice.
Upon a trial before a jury in the district court the plaintiff in error was found guilty of the crime of manslaughter, the verdict being returned upon the 26th day of May, 1899. Of the date of June 2d following, the transcript shows the following entry: “Comes now the above-named defendant in person and accompanied by his attorney, and also comes the State of Wyoming by the county and prosecuting attorney, and now the said defendant by his counsel asks leave of court to file his motion for a new trial herein, which permission is granted by the court, and the motion is…
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